Mr. President. today. once again. we honor the spirit. the memory. and the courage of the 1/ million Armenians who perished in the early years of this century in one of the worst episodes of human cruelty in all of recorded history. In these tragic years. between 1915 and 1923. officials of the Ottoman Empire implemented a policy under which innocent men. women. and children of Armenian ancestry were deported from their homes and villages and forced into exile. The violent repression and persecution of the Armenians led to a brutal and bloody period of suffering that resulted in the deaths. through massacres. disease. and starvation. of a large part of the Armenian population. Each year at this time we commemorate the tragic suffering of the Armenians.
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